Hockey-game skate



(No Model.)

B. H. BARNEY.

HOCKEY GAME SKATE.

No. 605,285. Patented June 7, 1898.

Fave/Z757? 270675 7545/ 'f ail W W EVERETT I-I. BARNEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOCKEY-GAME SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,285, dated June '7, 1898.

Application filed December 3 1897. Serial No. 660,607. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EVERETT H. BARNEY, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hockey- Game Skates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to skates, and to a peculiar construction thereof which adapts them to the use of skaters in playing the game of hockey, so called, upon the ice, the object being to provide an improved sole-plate for said skates; and the invention consists in the combination,with a skate-runner and heel connections thereon, of a sole-plate attached to said runner containing said improvements, all as hereinafter described, and more par: ticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a plan View of the upper side of a skate having a sole-plate thereon embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side of the skate, illustrating the same applied to the sole of a shoe as it first appears after such application. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the under side of a portion of the sole-plate of the skate, illustrating a manner of providing an exchangeable part or parts therefor, as below set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A is the runner of the skate. l3 B are the heel-brackets firmly secured on opposite sides of said runner by rivets passing transversely through the legs of the brackets and the runner, as shown, or by other suitable means. Said heel-brackets are perforated, as shown, so'that the screws 8 may be inserted through them for screwing into the shoe-sole P, as shown in Fig. 2,where-,

by the rear endof the skate is secured to the sole of a boot or shoe. 7

D indicates the sole-plate of the skate, of sheet-steel, preferably, or of such metal as best fits certain parts of the plate, to serve as asubstitute runner for temporary use in place of said runner A in the said game of hockey. The outline form of said sole-plate is made to conform more or less to that of a shoe-sole on which the skate is worn for skating. The sole-plate has suitable perforations through which topass screws 7 for securing'the same to a shoe-sole, and the heel-brackets B are similarly secured to the heel of the shoe by the screws 8. The said game of hockey, for playing which the within-described skate is constructed, requires for playing the same most efficiently and conveniently a runnersection on one or both borders of the soleplate, which serves in place of the long runner A at certain times, as follows: Said game involves the most rapid movements of the skater upon the ice in such circles as are unavoidable when he is compelled to turn abruptly from a right-line movement to run off laterally or in an opposite direction, and such evolutions cannot be satisfactorily performed upon the usual fullelength skate-runner A on account of the too-extended ice-contact which the latter has. Therefore the withindescribed improved sole-plate construction is provided, on which is one or more substitute runner-sections O 0 the latter indicating the section on the inner edge of the sole-plate. The outer border of each of said substitute runner-sections is sufficiently sharpened to cause it when brought uponthe ice to so engage therewith as to make it tofollow the circular line of movement which the skaters foot directs without danger of slipping on the ice. Thus when the above-described evolutions are performed the skater turns his foot to such an extent as brings the edge of said runner-sections against the ice, and in so doing the runner proper, A, of the skate is lifted clear from the ice, and momentarily the said section performs the function of the usual skate-runner, but under the said conditions peculiar to said game. It is sometimes found convenient to havesaid substitute runnersections (one orboth) removable or exchangeable, either for obtaining a change of form, for sharpening, or other cause, andto meet said convenience provision is made, as illustrated in Fig. 3, foiimaking said runner-sections separate from the sole-plate and securing them at the border of the latter, so that the outer edge thereof will sufficiently project beyond the shoe to engage, as aforesaid, with the ice. In said last-named figure, lOis the substitute runner-section, 9 is the sole-plate, and P indicates apart of a shoe-sole;

In Fig. 3 of the drawings the exchangeable runner-section 10 is shown secured to a part of the shoe-sole with itsinner edge abutting the outer edge of the sole-plate 9. Itis obvious, however, that said section 10 may, if preferred, be secured directly onto the under side of the sole-plate.

' Having thus described my invention, What laterally projecting substitute runner sections, integral therewith, substantially as set forth.

3. In a skate of the class described, a soleplate therefor combined with one or more eX- changeable substitute runner-sections, and means for securing said section or sections at the outer border of said sole-plate, substantially as set forth.

EVERETT H. BARNEY.

Witnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, K. I. CLEMoNs. 

